Michael O'Gara explained

Archbishop Name:Michael O'Gara
Dipstyle:The Most Reverend
Offstyle:Your Grace or Archbishop

Michael O'Gara (died 1748) was an Irish clergyman who served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam from 1740 to 1748.[1] [2] [3]

Biography

O'Gara trained as a priest at the Irish College at Alcalá de Henares, in Spain. He was appointed archbishop of the metropolitan see of Tuam by papal brief on 19 September 1740,[1] [2] [3] and received faculties as bishop later in the same month.[1] He received dispensation to exercise all the archiepiscopal acts without the Pallium on 28 November 1741.[1]

He died in office in 1748.[1] [2] [3]

See also

Bernard O'Gara - Brother, Archbishop of Tuam from 1723 to 1740

Notes and References

  1. Book: Brady, W. Maziere . William Maziere Brady

    . William Maziere Brady . The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875 . 1876 . Tipografia Della Pace . Rome . 2 . 147.

  2. Book: Fryde . E. B. . Greenway . D. E. . Porter . S. . Roy . I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd, reprinted 2003 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 443.
  3. Book: Moody . T. W. . Martin . F. X. . Byrne . F. J. . Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II . 1984 . Oxford University Press . New History of Ireland . XI . Oxford . 0-19-821745-5 . 379.